Sentence examples for Important confidants from inspiring English sources

The losses of two important confidants — former Senator Tom Daschle's withdrawal as Mr. Obama's choice for health and human services secretary amid a tax controversy, and Senator Edward M. Kennedy's long illness and death — have been "incalculable" setbacks for pushing legislation through Congress, said a top aide to Mr. Obama.

The International Criminal Court in The Hague held its first public hearing on Tuesday in the dispute on where to try two of the most important confidants of the former Libyan leader Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi: his son Seif al-Islam el-Qaddafi and his brother-in-law Abdullah Senussi.

In the wake of van Gogh's traumatizing break with Gauguin, Bernard, a young painter, became an important confidant.

He invited Husain Haqqani, Pakistan's ambassador to the United States and an important confidant, over to his house to ask him, "What would it take for me to convince the leadership in Pakistan that the U.S. wants to work together?" And he sent a private emissary to the military leadership to convey that he hoped to repair relations, not deliver an ultimatum.

Always politically engaged, Bergé was an important backer and confidant of the late French Socialist president François Mitterrand and later backed other Socialist presidential candidates including François Hollande.

The most important criterion is that your confidant care more about you than about the issues at stake.

A 1992 study of 2,000 heart patients suggested that having a confidant was more important than social links alone.

A family or friend confidant was an important means of gaining assistance, although the supportive presence of significant others was not always available.

A family or friend confidant was an important means of assistance, although the supportive presence of significant others was not always available.

Thus, although it is important to have close friends and confidants, from a career standpoint it is more beneficial to have a broad and diverse network with lots of loose connections.

Residual confounding is also possible from not examining other types or functions of social relationships (e.g. existence of a trusted confidant) that can be important factors influencing diet quality (Locher et al., 2005), or FV variety (Conklin et al., 2013), and might also contribute to SES-based health inequalities (Stringhini et al., 2012).